Purcell
Subtitle: an extraordinary life
By: Bruce Wood
Contributors: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain)
Publisher: ABRSM
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781860962981
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Description: Illuminates the sometimes shadowy figure of Henry Purcell, evoking the atmosphere of 17th-century England - full of intrigues and plots. By interweaving the events during an unparalleled period of social and political change with the life and music of Purcell, this book creates an account of this elusive English genius that is hard to put down.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood and apprenticeship (1659?-1677); title: Early mastery (1677-1685); title: Serving a Catholic monarch (1685-1688); title: 'Pride and wonder of the age' (1689-1695).